Actually I still have and use every day the table we bought in 1974 Maw. Here it is. Had it French polished once is all. To think that same daughter who I mentioned up thread sat at it playing with her doll’s house at 4y old. (She scratched it by accident, but hey ho, furniture is meant to be used and people’s feelings are more important than ‘stuff’).
I don’t know how to explain this, but I bought a 1976 Hornsea pottery teaset in an antique shop in Framlingham at the weekend and and it got me all nostalgic about the styles of the 70’s.
Laura Ashley matching wallpaper and curtain fabric, pine chests of drawers stripped pine doors, stripped pine floors and anything anything from the Habitat shop in S Ken which for me epitomised rural French chic.
And I realised that I am very much a product of the 70’s/early 80’s.
Fondues, Kitchen dinner parties, pie crust neck shirts, that Princess Diana sheep jumper, and low heeled or flat ballet pump type shoes with a little bit of brass round the back of the heel.
I could go on but won’t.
Was it because of the styles of the time were very easy to wear or live with or because as a “newly married” and setting up home this was the look which I aspired to? But it was a period I remember with affection and where I felt comfortable.
Do you “have” a decade?
Registering is free, easy, and means you can join the discussion, watch threads and lots more.
Register now »Already registered? Log in with:
Gransnet »
